20 Smartest Cities in America
| December 28, 2016
Stanford, California
In 2013, the company behind the brain-training app Lumosity evaluated their user data and determined that their smartest users resided in Stanford, CA.
Stanford is of course home to Stanford University, which is known to be the most exclusive and selective school in the U.S., with an acceptance rate of just 4.69%. Stanford also boasts four current serving Supreme Court justices among their alumni.
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